Keeping Up

While most of the attention paid to her is related to her choices in attire, the fluctuating fullness of her lips, and the antics of her family members, Kylie Jenner has not received nearly as much coverage pertaining to the fact that, this whole time, she has been, it would appear, attending school. Though never explored on Keeping Up with the Kardashians or explicitly mentioned in any of her Instagrams, the 17-year-old has been taking high-school classes, and she has now graduated from high school, posting a portrait with her diploma from Laurel Springs High School (in which the document covers one of her eyes). “I love my mom for doing this,” Jenner wrote. “Thank you for making this experience as normal as possible for me. Yay. I graduated :)”. Pretty sweet, actually, no?

And because this is the Kardashians we are talking about, there was of course only one way to celebrate the occasion: throw a glamorous party with a photo booth that produces chic black-and-white pictures. Both Kylie and sister Kim Kardashian have been posting shots from the event, and it appears from the way the photo-booth photographs are branded in the top-left corner (“Congratulations Kendall & Kylie, Class 2014 and 2015”) that the ceremony and soiree were also designed to celebrate Kendall, who must have graduated last year. (The next season of True Detective will be based on the preceding sentence.)

The party saw all five Kardashian sisters united in the same place at the same time, as Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney were all in attendance. Additional photos indicate Gigi Hadidwas there, as was Ryan Seacrest, who, Kim reveals in an Instagram caption, “hosted [the] graduation ceremony,” indicating there was some kind of actual ceremonial diploma-awarding at this event. (Seems about right, and perhaps fodder for an American-studies thesis, that Ryan Seacrest handed Kylie Jenner her diploma.) No photos have cropped up yet, from the party, of matriarch Kris Jenner, nor reclusive Kardashian brother Rob, nor not-totally-reclusive-but-sort-of-reclusive-when-it-comes-to-this-kind-of-event brother-in-law Kanye West, but, it’s only been about 12 hours since the party, and, if we know our Kardashians, there will be many more Instagrams from the event posted to their collective accounts to come.